Tags: Google, Releases, Website, WordPress
Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress
November 14th, 2005, by Rich.

This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of <>’s.
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I have it running on this site and it seems to be working just fine so far.
Installation instructions
To use it:
- If you have a previous version of the plugin, delete it.
Download this file- Rename the file
googleanalytics.phpand copy it to your/wp-content/pluginsdirectory. - Enable it on the plugins page.
- Enter your Google Analytics User Account string (it’ll be something like UA-12345-6. It appears when you “Add a channel”)
- That’s it.
You don’t need to look alter the code in any way to make it run; of course you’re welcome to improve it and send me any updates for inclusion.
Features
- Zero Coding
A zero coding install enables both the default tracking and the use of different channels for specific posts. - Outgoing links
Track which outgoing links your users click on - i.e. the ones that don’t traditionally register in your logs. Separate tracking streams for outbound links that are in the main article, comments, and comment author URL’s
- Multiple Channels
Assign a specific channel to any article by entering the channel ID as metadata. i.e. simply type “analytics” as the metadata field name and the channel ID as the value and you can run a channel for each specific post
Requested Features
- Filtering the Sidebar
WordPress provides hooks for filtering articles and comments, but not for filtering the sidebar and footer. Since the sidebar often includes the blogroll there are page-exit clicks that cannot be tracked. If anyoen has a clean solution to filtering the sidebar then please speak up! - 100% Point’n'Click UI
I’ve asked on the forums to see if there’s away to automate the retrieval of the account id, so hopefully the plugin can become a configuration free install.
Assign a different channel ID to each category.
Versions
A historical list of releases.
Contribute
Please neatly tuck any feedback, comments, suggestions & requests onto the forum!


March 22nd, 2006 at 2:58 am
March 24th, 2006 at 10:57 am
March 26th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
April 11th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
I seem to have a conflict between this plugin and my technorati tags plugin from http://www.broobles.com/ does anyone know how to fix this?
April 11th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Hi A Samuel, can you be a bit more descriptive? I have no idea what you are seeing sorry. I’ve had a look at your site and the plugin is currently disabled, so I’m a bit limited in what I can diagnose so far!
April 12th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Strange it is activated? I am seeing this in the source code:
Technorati Tags: manchester, offplan, off plan, affordable, housing, flats, leeds, city pod, UK
It seems to be stopping technorati log my posts any ideas?
April 12th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Aha, got it. Yes, this is a most curious one and it’s down to the combination of the that Analytics works and the way Technorati do their indexing. The analytics plugin updates every link to include the onClick code which can be seen in each of your tags, but technorati don’t seem to like this.
Two solutions spring to mind (in advance of me being able to code a workaround).
April 12th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Thanks for the response, I appreciate your help. I have raised a ticket and await to hear from them. I will try the scenario you suggested if no solution can be found. Ill keep you posted.
Cheers once again!
April 13th, 2006 at 1:22 am
April 18th, 2006 at 9:26 pm